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Ep. 213 Dual Physician Households: Managing Parenthood and Careers with Dr. Katie Amin and Dr. Petar Bajic
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Ep. 213 Dual Physician Households: Managing Parenthood and Careers with Dr. Katie Amin and Dr. Petar Bajic
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Ep. 213 Dual Physician Households: Managing Parenthood and Careers with Dr. Katie Amin and Dr. Petar Bajic
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Dateline NBC
Cases to watch in 2025: Sean "Diddy" Combs and Bryan Kohberger. Plus, safety tips for AI scams.
Tonight, explosive allegations against legendary rapper and mogul Jay-Z. A new civil lawsuit is accusing him of raping a 13-year-old girl with Sean Diddy combs, which they both deny.
Global News Podcast
Nvidia shares sink as Chinese AI app spooks markets
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Nvidia shares sink as Chinese AI app spooks markets
Also in this podcast... HMS Agincourt would instead be known as HMS Achilles.
Global News Podcast
Nvidia shares sink as Chinese AI app spooks markets
Ostensibly, it's the Royal Navy's Ships, Names and Badging Committee which decides what a vessel's called, then approved by the monarch. But politicians have intervened in the past. It was the former Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson who first announced that the seventh astute-class submarine, now under construction, would be named HMS Agincourt.
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Nvidia shares sink as Chinese AI app spooks markets
recalling the famous battle in 1415, in which Henry V's army, outnumbered but including the much-feared Longbowmen, defeated the French. A victory immortalised by Shakespeare's words and on film. Sir Gavin might not have been worried about ruffling a few French feathers, but others were. The Navy announced a change of name. HMS Agincourt would instead be known as HMS Achilles.
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Nvidia shares sink as Chinese AI app spooks markets
A change that followed newspaper reports of concerns within the MOD that naming a submarine after a key ally's humiliating loss might offend. even though earlier naval vessels have borne the same name. Another former Conservative Defence Secretary, Grant Shapps, has called the U-turn sacrilege and woke nonsense. Renaming a vessel is rare but not unprecedented.
Global News Podcast
Nvidia shares sink as Chinese AI app spooks markets
Superstitious sailors sometimes view changing a name unlucky.
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors. We cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
He made a billion, but is he good, bad or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire. Listen on the BBC app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors. We cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
He made a billion, but is he good, bad or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire. Listen on the BBC app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Syria's de facto leader says the country is not a threat to its neighbours or the west
Yoga is more than just exercise. It's the spiritual practice that millions swear by. And in 2017, Miranda, a university tutor from London, joins a yoga school that promises profound transformation.
Global News Podcast
Syria's de facto leader says the country is not a threat to its neighbours or the west
But soon, that calm, welcoming atmosphere leads to something far darker, a journey that leads to allegations of grooming, trafficking and exploitation across international borders.
Global News Podcast
Syria's de facto leader says the country is not a threat to its neighbours or the west
World of Secrets is where untold stories are unveiled and hidden realities are exposed. In this new series, we're confronting the dark side of the wellness industry with a hope of a spiritual breakthrough gives way to disturbing accusations. You just get sucked in so gradually.
Global News Podcast
Syria's de facto leader says the country is not a threat to its neighbours or the west
World of Secrets, Season 6, The Bad Guru. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
Yeah, we're talking about Marcus Persson, the Swedish coding king who programmed the world's most successful game, Minecraft, all by himself.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
I have never heard such a sound in my whole life. It was so loud. I was so scared.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
Yep, we're talking about Marcus Persson, the Swedish coding king who programmed the world's most successful game, Minecraft, all by himself.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
Yep, we're talking about Marcus Persson, the Swedish coding king who programmed the world's most successful game, Minecraft, all by himself.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.
Global News Podcast
Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
Yep, we're talking about Marcus Persson, the Swedish coding king who programmed the world's most successful game, Minecraft, all by himself.
Global News Podcast
Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.
Global News Podcast
Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
Yep, we're talking about Marcus Persson, the Swedish coding king who programmed the world's most successful game, Minecraft, all by himself.
Global News Podcast
Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.
Global News Podcast
Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
Yeah, we're talking about Marcus Persson, the Swedish coding king who programmed the world's most successful game, Minecraft, all by himself.
Global News Podcast
Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
Delve into a world of secrets. The BBC's Global Investigations podcast, breaking major news stories around the world.
Global News Podcast
Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
Delve into a world of secrets. The BBC's Global Investigations podcast, breaking major news stories around the world.
Global News Podcast
Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
Start listening to Oliver Berkman, Epidemics of Modern Life. Available to purchase wherever you get your audiobooks.
Global News Podcast
Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
Yoga is more than just exercise. It's the spiritual practice that millions swear by. And in 2017, Miranda, a university tutor from London, joins a yoga school that promises profound transformation.
Global News Podcast
Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
But soon, that calm, welcoming atmosphere leads to something far darker, a journey that leads to allegations of grooming, trafficking and exploitation across international borders.
Global News Podcast
Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
World of Secrets is where untold stories are unveiled and hidden realities are exposed. In this new series, we're confronting the dark side of the wellness industry with the hope of a spiritual breakthrough gives way to disturbing accusations. You just get sucked in so gradually.
Global News Podcast
Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
World of Secrets, Season 6, The Bad Guru. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
Start listening to Oliver Berkman, Epidemics of Modern Life. Available to purchase wherever you get your audiobooks.
Global News Podcast
NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.
Global News Podcast
NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.
Global News Podcast
NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.
Global News Podcast
NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
Yep, we're talking about Marcus Persson, the Swedish coding king who programmed the world's most successful game, Minecraft, all by himself.
Global News Podcast
NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
Yep, we're talking about Marcus Persson, the Swedish coding king who programmed the world's most successful game, Minecraft, all by himself.
Global News Podcast
NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Global News Podcast
Syria: thousands celebrate 'Victory Day'
It's the spiritual practice that millions swear by. And in 2017, Miranda, a university tutor from London, joins a yoga school that promises profound transformation.
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Syria: thousands celebrate 'Victory Day'
But soon, that calm, welcoming atmosphere leads to something far darker, a journey that leads to allegations of grooming, trafficking and exploitation across international borders.
Global News Podcast
Syria: thousands celebrate 'Victory Day'
World of Secrets is where untold stories are unveiled and hidden realities are exposed. In this new series, we're confronting the dark side of the wellness industry with a hope of a spiritual breakthrough gives way to disturbing accusations. You just get sucked in so gradually.
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Syria: thousands celebrate 'Victory Day'
World of Secrets, Season 6, The Bad Guru. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
My Friend Daisy
Episode 3 - Smile Now, Cry Later
The story is much more complicated and nuanced than that.
My Friend Daisy
Episode 3 - Smile Now, Cry Later
The story is much more complicated and nuanced than that.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: Our Ancestors Were Messy
Coming up, Lucinda starts a beehive and Lulu prepares to become a bride.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: Our Ancestors Were Messy
We now return to Our Ancestors Were Messy.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: Our Ancestors Were Messy
The Secret Adventures of Black People presents Our Ancestors Were Messy.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: Our Ancestors Were Messy
Today, a forbidden romance threatens the future of one of DC's most elite families. And Lulu was probably like, I don't care about this side of the track, that side of the track. I'm in love. And provides fodder for two of DC's busiest gossip columnists.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: Our Ancestors Were Messy
This episode stars Junkerlyn Hill, host of the podcast Explain It To Me for Vox.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: Our Ancestors Were Messy
Dion. I think it's Dion. This is Our Ancestors Were Messy, a podcast about our ancestors and all their drama.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: Our Ancestors Were Messy
You came for the mess. Now stay for the rest. When Our Ancestors Were Messy continues.
Nobody Should Believe Me
Introducing: Our Ancestors Were Messy
And now for the thrilling conclusion of this week's installment of Our Ancestors Were Messy.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 6 Love Experts Reveal How to Finally Attract the Right Relationship! Featuring Joe Dispenza & Lori Gottlieb
Well, then you're a kid with a balloon.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 6 Love Experts Reveal How to Finally Attract the Right Relationship! Featuring Joe Dispenza & Lori Gottlieb
Right? And you go and hold, I'm never... I'm never, ever going to let this balloon go, right? And ignoring for this for a second, the environmental impact of letting a balloon go. Let's talk about it just metaphorically. You go, this is my balloon. I'm going to hold this balloon. I'm never, ever, ever, ever, ever going to let go of this balloon.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 6 Love Experts Reveal How to Finally Attract the Right Relationship! Featuring Joe Dispenza & Lori Gottlieb
In fact, I'm going to go, I'm going to tie it to my wrist so it can't disappear because that happened to me once before. And you know what I mean? I'm going to just, you know, that's it. And then slowly that balloon will just wilt and it will run out of the thing that made it gray. And it will just then be, then it's tied to your wrist and you're dragging it behind you, right?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 6 Love Experts Reveal How to Finally Attract the Right Relationship! Featuring Joe Dispenza & Lori Gottlieb
And actually it's something quite beautiful. And again, environmentally, I'm not encouraging this. We didn't know about this when we were kids. When you let go of a balloon, it's magical, magical. And then you see it and you're like, oh my God, I used to have that. I used to hold onto that and look at it now. Look, it's just flowing. That's amazing.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 6 Love Experts Reveal How to Finally Attract the Right Relationship! Featuring Joe Dispenza & Lori Gottlieb
And then you go, well, now I haven't got a balloon. And then you go, well, maybe I'll get another one. Maybe there'll be another balloon and maybe it'll be a different shape or it'll be shinier or whatever it is. Like you've got to be able to let go of stuff to make new things come in. You've got to have the space and the time to encounter something new.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 6 Love Experts Reveal How to Finally Attract the Right Relationship! Featuring Joe Dispenza & Lori Gottlieb
A friend of mine a year ago, maybe less, had his heart broken in the most brutal circumstances. It was his first love, first girlfriend. And they broke up and he was just not in a good way. And this was his first real proper serious girlfriend, certainly the first time he'd been in love before. I just found myself saying to him, I was like, this is great.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 6 Love Experts Reveal How to Finally Attract the Right Relationship! Featuring Joe Dispenza & Lori Gottlieb
this is great because you really only understand what love is once your heart's been broken. You understand how tender it is. And I was like, and you understand it now. And what's, you're looking at this all wrong. You get to do it again. You get to do this again. You're going to meet someone else and feel all these feelings and perhaps
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 6 Love Experts Reveal How to Finally Attract the Right Relationship! Featuring Joe Dispenza & Lori Gottlieb
you'll go into that relationship, learning what you've learned from this relationship, and that will then feed that relationship in a different way. And he's just met someone, right?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 6 Love Experts Reveal How to Finally Attract the Right Relationship! Featuring Joe Dispenza & Lori Gottlieb
And he's like, oh my God, this is amazing. And I'm like, yeah. He's got that balloon again. Yeah. That's it. That's it. And so, again, I think it's expectation. is the thing that makes us hold onto stuff. If you can just ebb and flow with stuff, you're going to find it so much easier to take the good, the bad, and the everything in between as just all being good for you.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 6 Love Experts Reveal How to Finally Attract the Right Relationship! Featuring Joe Dispenza & Lori Gottlieb
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The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
Today on the AI Daily Brief, a new voice model has everyone chattering about the future of voice agents. And before then in the headlines, Anthropic completes a big new raise that seems for some to be driven by one particular use case. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
A lot of the early wedges are in doing the same stuff that's available now with humans, just at times or in ways that wouldn't make sense at human prices. So for example, after hours or overflow calls, net new outbound calls and sales, and back office calls that aren't customer facing.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
Even as these voice agents roll out right now, you still have the behavior of people desperately trying to get to a human customer service worker instead as soon as they recognize that they're talking to AI. And so the question becomes, does Sesame as an update fundamentally change that?
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Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
Alex Carlson argues that while this might feel like another incremental improvement, it actually represents what he calls a paradigm shift in how we'll perceive and interact with technology.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
He continues, "...unlike traditional text-to-speech systems that generate audio from pre-written text, Sesame's conversational speech model processes language in prosody, a fancy word for rhythm, allowing for real-time adjustments including natural hesitations, interruptions, and emotional inflections."
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
And there's some early evidence that this more human style of voice mode could really make a difference in how voice agents actually behave. Entrepreneur John McCrea writes, A sign of how powerful Sesame's platform is. Two or three times now, my conversation with Maya was so engaging that it was in danger of going over the 30-minute time limit.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
The information had previously reported that Anthropic expects to burn $3 billion this year, so this funding round should see them cleanly until 2026, unless, of course, they really step on the gas. All right, now I promised at the beginning of this that there was something interesting about this to me. And it comes from this offhanded tweet from Didi Das, who is a VC at Menlo Ventures.
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Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
And when she said she had to go, I felt like I was being abandoned. Some are even warning of negative social implications. Chico Jose writes, Imagine generative avatars with Sesame-like audio running locally on your phone. Almost every teenager's first relationship is going to be in AI then. Real relationships, let alone marriages, are going to nosedive in the next five years.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
This will be the most fundamental change to humanity in all of history. And seeing what is potentially a major change and upgrade to the underlying voice models that those platforms run on might just accelerate that trend even more. For now though, that's going to do it for today's AI Daily Brief. Until next time, peace.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
Didi writes, Now, of course, the caveat here is that this is just one investor's take. But the fact that he so clearly puts the value of Anthropic as tied to the specific use case of transforming and improving software engineering is really fascinating. If you asked Anthropic, they'd say that they were competing for AGI. Same way that OpenAI would say that.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
Same way that Sergey Brin said that in his recent memo to Google. So the fact that you have one of these investors who's just put a bunch of money back in this company really honing in on this very specific use case is fascinating.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
To join the conversation, follow the Discord link in our show notes. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines Edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. We kick off today with Anthropic's latest raise. It is another monster round. Honestly, at this point, numbers are starting to become meaningless. Every company is raising a gajillion dollars at a Googleplex valuation.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
Making it more interesting is the fact that it has become increasingly clear that there is really almost no technology moat right now when it comes to the foundation models. Sure, some can be state-of-the-art for a few weeks or even a few months, but after that, everyone catches up. It certainly doesn't seem defensible enough to build a real moat around.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
And yet, maybe the one exception to that is the chokehold that Anthropic has on coders. It has for some time now, really since the middle of last year, been the default choice as the coding assistant underlying model. It is, for example, what most people use inside Cursor, which has driven a huge amount of their revenue.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
And I don't think it's an accident that the release of 3.7 coincides with a big jump in their revenue as that becomes the default model as well. Now, obviously, Anthropic is going to try to compete in more areas than just software engineering.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
But the fact that it has unlocked some magic in this area and it continues to keep that lead is really fascinating, if only because it's so out of sync with basically every other area of AI. Next up today, moving over to the infrastructure side of things, Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC has announced plans to invest $100 billion into the United States.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
The firm will use the money to expand operations in Arizona and construct three new chip plants. The investment will include two advanced chip packaging facilities as well as a research and development center. Over time, these plants could help bring the entire AI chip development and manufacturing cycle onshore. CEO C.C.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
Wei attended the White House for the announcement, which of course advances the long-held strategic goal of reviving domestic chipmaking. Trump boasted, Trump boasted, David Newman, CEO of tech advisory firm Futurum Group, speculated that the investment may indeed have been part of a deal to delay tariffs. He said, "...as the U.S.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
continues to push for increased domestic manufacturing and with tariffs on the horizon, a substantial commitment from TSMC could serve as a strategic gesture of goodwill." The expansion of U.S. facilities could also be a boon for TSMC after the success of the Arizona plant. Planning for that facility began in 2020 and was bolstered by the Biden-Chips Act.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
The fab ramped up into full production late last year and produced greater yields than TSMC's average output for Taiwanese facilities. The new commitment will be in addition to $65 billion that has already been earmarked to build out that Arizona facility.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
The news triggered concerns that TSMC was becoming an American company, with online commentators referring to the company as ASMC and saying that Wei, quote, looks like he has a gun behind his head. Hostage situation. Taiwanese Economic Minister Kyoji Hu responded, TSMC already has plants in the US and Japan, and now it's building a new plant in Germany. These have nothing to do with tariffs.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
TSMC's global expansion is a crucial development. Some pretty big stories today in the headlines here that certainly could have been their own main episodes. For now, though, we'll wrap there. And next up, move into a discussion of voice agents and a model which could be the chat GPT moment for that particular subset of AI technology. Today's episode is brought to you by Vanta.
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Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
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The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
But this one is interesting to me for a very specific reason, which is the way that at least some of their investors are framing Anthropic's focus.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
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So first to the details, the company raised $3.5 billion in Series E funding, led by a billion-dollar investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Salesforce, Cisco, Fidelity, General Catalyst, D1, Jane Street, Menlo, and Bessemer all participating.
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That's www.kpmg.us slash AI Guide. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief. Today, we are talking nominally about a product demo that has a lot of people talking, both literally and figuratively. The product is called Sesame, and some are even saying that this is the GPT-3 moment for voice AI.
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
Beyond just talking about Sesame, however, I wanted to use this as a chance to check in on the state of voice agents. There has been an incredible explosion of voice-based platforms.
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Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
Indeed, even Superintelligent has rebuilt our main product offering to be anchored by a voice agent that can conduct infinitely scalable interviews across entire organizations to help them understand where their AI and agent opportunities lie. So obviously because of that, this is an area that we've been thinking about a lot.
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Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
So what we're going to do today is talk first about Sesame, this demo that has people so interested and excited, and then we'll broaden out to the larger conversation of voice agents more generally. Is this the next great computing platform, or are we underestimating just how much of a change speaking to computers as our primary way of interacting really is? Let's get to Sesame first.
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Over the weekend, if you were on Twitter slash X, you might have seen people dropping demos of what seemed like a really impressive new voice model. Here's an example from Professor Ethan Malek.
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Anthropic said in the most boilerplate of fundraising text, With this investment, Anthropic will advance its development of next-generation AI systems, expand its compute capacity, deepen its research in mechanistic interpretability and alignment, and accelerate its international expansion.
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Let's flip over to one of the demos that the company themselves share just for a second to get a different context.
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Professor Malik writes, the new AI voice from Sesame really is a powerful illustration of where AI is going. He pointed out that in the demo that he shared, it was all real time from his browser. He writes, excellent use of disfluencies, pauses, even intakes of breath really make this seem like a human, though bits of uncanniness remain for now.
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Pliny the Liberator writes, all right, Sesame is by far the most AGI-feeling voice model I've interacted with yet. They absolutely cooked. Chubby writes, I agree with Pliny. This is the first feel the AGI moment for AI voice mode for me. If this would be the new Siri or Alexa, I would treat it as a real human being as it sounds so natural. And we have to remember this is the worst it will ever be.
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Entrepreneur Murillo Pereira writes, this is incredible. The voice sounds so natural and the replies are so fast, maybe too fast. It was even able to pronounce my name, which isn't super common. Better conversationalist than many humans. Signal writes, My lord, the Sesame Voice AI is absolutely effing insane. I knew it was artificial. I knew there wasn't a real person on the other end.
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And yet I still felt like I was talking to a person. I felt the same social pressure, the same awkwardness when I hesitated, the same discomfort when I misspoke. It wasn't just convincing, it worked on me in a way I didn't expect. I used to think I'd be immune to this. Menlo's Didi Das sums up, this is the GPT-3 moment for voice AI, the movie Her.
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Anthropic's valuation has now tripled since their February 2024 Series D. One year ago, the company was valued at $18 billion. The valuation is supported by skyrocketing revenue, which went 10x to hit $1 billion annualized by the end of last year.
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Everything we had before was turn by turn, robotic, emotionless with no human tics. This, as Didi points out, is something very different. Now, in terms of some of the details, one of the big innovations that's almost going a little underappreciated is that the voice model is actually extremely small.
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Sesame trained the model on approximately a million hours of audio, but managed to bake it down into a 1 billion parameter model with 100 million parameter decoder. They also produced a 3B and an 8B model, which suggests this level of voice assistant will be very cheap and likely able to run on local devices.
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Tosh wrote, The cost of speech-to-speech is going to zero once Sesame open-sources the weights. Sesame, which was co-founded by Oculus co-founder Brandon Uribe, has also committed to releasing the model under the Apache 2.0 commercial use license. So what then is their play? Is this a competitor, for example, to Eleven Labs? In point of fact, Sesame is actually going for something different.
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Their webpage reads, "...bringing the computer to life. We believe in a future where computers are lifelike. They will see, hear, and collaborate with us the way we're used to. A natural human voice is key to unlocking this future." And so to get there, they write they have two goals.
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The first is a personal companion, which they describe as an ever-present brilliant friend and conversationalist, keeping you informed and organized, helping you be a better version of yourself.
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And second, and this is where the product vision comes in, lightweight eyewear, designed, they say, to be worn all day, giving you high quality audio and convenient access to your companion who can observe the world alongside you. So in terms of why Sesame could think about just giving away what seems like such a big innovation, it's because they're playing a very different type of game.
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And the fact that they do have this other business model, which potentially allows them to open source what they've built, has some real implications for other companies in the space. Developer Adil Mania experimented with Sesame and immediately thought about all of the applications and use cases that something like this could open up.
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He wrote, It's way more human than ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode. I would clearly prefer to talk to such a voice about my problems than a psychologist. I would clearly prefer practicing my English with her than a teacher or Duolingo.
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Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
Now, obviously not everyone will feel the same, but I think that the broader point that every increase in the capabilities of voice AI opens up new use cases and opportunities is absolutely true. And that gets us to the broader state of AI voice and specifically AI voice agents. In a recent report by Andreessen Horowitz partner, Olivia Moore, She wrote,
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Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
Bloomberg sources also suggest that Anthropic have already experienced another 30% revenue boost so far this year with the release of Claude 3.7's sonnet. Certainly, it appears that there are no shortage of buyers for the foundation model companies at these mega rounds. Earlier reports had Anthropic only seeking to raise $2 billion, so it appears that an extra billion and a half was squeezed in.
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Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?
Voice agents also allow businesses to be available to their customers 24-7 to answer questions, schedule appointments, or complete purchases. Customer availability and business availability no longer have to match one-to-one. With voice agents, every business can always be online. And here's where the big pronouncements start to come.
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Moore writes, For consumers, we believe voice will be the first and perhaps the primary way people interact with AI. This interaction could take the form of an always available companion or coach or by democratizing services such as language learning that were previously inaccessible. And importantly, she writes, as models improve, voice will become the wedge, not the product.
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And indeed, there are so many products. One just needs to look at the B2B voice agents market map that they include to see how companies are using voice for just all sorts of different applications. Of course, there's customer service, the category that you probably think of most when it comes to voice agents.
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But then there's also voice agents for sales, voice agents for finance, voice agents for training, logistics, research, recruiting, and then also agents that are verticalized by industry rather than function. Home services, restaurants, auto dealers, real estate, and a heck of a lot of healthcare. On the consumer side, there's a ton happening in ed tech.
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There's some interesting experiments on therapy. Plus, there are the general experiments with companions and assistants. The report points out that since 2020, Y Combinator has seen 90 voice agent companies. And as you might imagine, this has only accelerated over the last year.
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And interestingly, if you look back, 2024 really was the key building year to enable voice agents in so many different ways. OpenAI debuted GPT-4.0 Voice in May of 2024 and began rollout of Advanced Voice Mode in July of 2024. In September, Notebook LM started to go viral with its audio overviews, and then in October, OpenAI launched the real-time API for developers.
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